Hurray for the Riff Raff (aka Alynda Segarra) shares the music video for “Alibi,” from their 2024 album, The Past Is Still Alive. “The Past Is Still Alive is an album grappling with time, memory, love and loss, recorded in Durham, NC, a month after losing my father,” Segarra says. “‘Alibi’ is a plea, a last ditch effort to get through to someone you already know you’re gonna lose. It’s a song to myself, to my Father, almost fooling myself because I know what’s done is done. But it feels good to beg. A reckoning with time and memory. The song is exhausted with loving someone so much it hurts. Addiction separates us. With memories of the Lower East Side in the early 2000s of my childhood, mixed with imagery of the endless West that calls to artists and wanderers.” The video is directed, produced, and edited by Eric Stafford, with creative direction by Segarra, and additional footage by Kat Sotelo.
Hurray for the Riff Raff: “Alibi”
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Hurray for the Riff Raff (aka Alynda Segarra) shares the music video for “Alibi,” from their 2024 album, The Past Is Still Alive. “The Past Is Still Alive is an album grappling with time, memory, love and loss, recorded in Durham, NC, a month after losing my father,” Segarra says. “‘Alibi’ is a plea, a last ditch effort to get through to someone you already know you’re gonna lose. It’s a song to myself, to my Father, almost fooling myself because I know what’s done is done. But it feels good to beg. A reckoning with time and memory. The song is exhausted with loving someone so much it hurts. Addiction separates us. With memories of the Lower East Side in the early 2000s of my childhood, mixed with imagery of the endless West that calls to artists and wanderers.” The video is directed, produced, and edited by Eric Stafford, with creative direction by Segarra, and additional footage by Kat Sotelo.